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CITIZENFOUR directed by Laura Poitras,
as well as fiction features
like PARIAH and Sundance 2015 premiere THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE
GIRL. Over the last 5 years WMM has helped
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completion and channeled more than $17,000,000 to filmmakers.

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ABORTION HOTLINE: THE ECONOMOICS OF STIGMAA film by A film by Barbara Attie & Janet Goldwater
At the abortion fund hotline in Philadelphia, abortion access counselors arrive each morning to find an answering machine full of calls from women and girls who are seeking to end a pregnancy . . . and can’t afford to. This documentary will expose the on-the-ground reality of unequal access to the right to abortion in America.

ADIOS AMOR: THE SEARCH FOR MARIA MORENO (FORMERLY ADIOS AMOR)A film by Laurie Coyle
In Adios Amor, the discovery of forgotten photographs prompts a search for an unsung heroine—Maria Moreno, a tenacious woman who sacrificed everything but her twelve kids to organize California’s migrant farm workers fifty years ago. The one-hour documentary interweaves the filmmaker’s quest to find Maria with a journey through California’s agricultural belt and archives. Through a little known but remarkable migrant mother’s life, Adios Amor tells a story with national resonance about the migrant workers who put food on our tables, while exploring enduring questions about whose lives we remember, record and recognize.

AFTERMATH: THE BRANDON TEENA STORY, 25 YEARS LATERA film by Susan Muska and Anya Rous
Brandon Teena's brutal rape and murder in rural Nebraska took the US by storm in 1993, leaving fear and confusion in its wake. In an intimate follow-up to Emmy-nominated THE BRANDON TEENA STORY, AFTERMATH revisits Brandon's community 25 years later, as they grapple with permanent loss, promising growth, and lingering questions about gender, acceptance, and safety.

ALL WE'VE GOTA film by Alexis Clements
Bars, bookstores, art and community spaces where LGBTQ women gather are closing their doors, and women are being forced out of the neighborhoods where the few spaces remain. Why is this happening, what’s being lost, and what are some spaces doing to stay open despite the odds? Join us as we travel the country to find answers to these questions and more.

ANYTHING YOU LOSEA film by Irina Vodar
What would you lose if you didn't have a child?

Irina is one of 7.5 million Americans who come to the aid of Reproductive Technologies to build their families, like many groups of prospect parents, including LGBT, transgender, and women of advanced maternal age (35-45). The 10-year journey reveals a narrative beyond the scope of flashy headlines; one fraught with stigma, pressure, great hope and existential crisis.

ARMING SISTERS DOCUMENTARYA film by Willow O'Feral & Brad Heck
Dawn is a tribal cop in the midst of an oil boom threatening to pull the threads of her culture apart. Patty teaches women self-defense on reservations across the Great Plains. Chalsey writes anti-sex trafficking code in the Bakken. Arming Sisters profiles these and other remarkable American Indian women who are fighting on a grass-roots level to end violence against indigenous women.

AS PRESCRIBEDA film by Holly Hardman
For over fifty years, doctors have been prescribing benzodiazepines. The drugs bear well-known names: Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan. They are commonly thought of as safe, even innocuous drugs that help take the edge off or offer a better night’s sleep. As Prescribed, however, documents a strikingly different narrative. Through personal accounts and investigating mounting evidence, the film reveals benzodiazepines’ constellation of frightening effects, as well as the errant medical culture that continues to promote them. The result is the story of an under-the-radar epidemic that is devastating lives globally.

THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYLA film by Holly Morris and Anne Bogart
As Fukushima smolders, and the world grapples with a dangerous energy era, an unlikely human story emerges from Chernobyl to inform the debate. In the radioactive “Dead Zone” that surrounds the Chernobyl nuclear reactor #4, lives a community of some 200 elderly women. While their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have died off, this stubborn sisterhood is surviving — even, oddly, thriving — on some of the most toxic acres on Earth. Why they returned - defying the authorities and seriously endangering their health - is a tale about the pull of motherland, the power of shaping one’s destiny, and the subjective nature of risk.(Photo by Rena Effendi)

BEBAA film by Sofia Geld & Rebeca Huntt
A Harlem native struggles to define herself in a time of racial turmoil. Part documentary, part memoir, Beba is a love letter to black life, a cinematic exploration of one woman’s path to survival.

BIG TOP, LITTLE LADYA film by Kat Vecchio
The great American train circuses of the 19th and early 20th century inspired and entertained a nation. From May to December hundreds of circus performers, many of them women, crisscrossed America by rail as cast members in some of the largest circuses the country has ever known. The circus life brought freedom for many of these women, but it also came with sacrifice and danger. Big Top, Little Lady explores the lives of the women that challenged convention and dazzled the crowds.

BLOWIN' UP (FORMERLY IMITATION OF CHOICE)A film by Stephanie Wang-Breal
Queens, New York is one of the most diverse counties in the United States; one of the largest immigration and transit hubs in the world; and the epicenter of prostitution in New York City. It’s also the place where a groundbreaking judge and an innovative human trafficking court are revolutionizing the way we identify and support victims of trafficking... by arresting them first.

THE BOMBA film by Smriti Keshari
the bomb is a multi-media installation that will help promote a dialogue about nuclear weapons and capture the imagination of a generation that knows almost nothing about them. The audience will be taken on an immersive journey into a nuclear realm that’s terrifying, bizarre, often absurd, and oddly compelling.

BREAK THE GAMEA film by Jane M. Wagner
A transgender video game live streamer embarks on an epic quest to win back the love of her former fans by becoming the world’s fastest Legend of Zelda player. But when the digital world rallies against her, she must find a new path to victory.

CALL ME LUCKYA film by Malena Barrios
Henry Schloss, a young Holocaust survivor who lost every member of his family in the camps, develops the obsession of filming his son once he became a father. On the inside, however, he struggled with undiagnosed symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

CHARM CITYA film by Marilyn Ness
During three years of unparalleled violence in Baltimore, CHARM CITY delivers an unexpectedly candid, observational portrait of the police, citizens, and government officials left on the frontlines. In these divisive times, CHARM CITY offers humanity as common ground.

CHEERA film by Mary Olive Smith, Flying Pup Productions
CHEER follows the challenges and triumphs of a one-of-a-kind cheerleading squad called the Sparks. Based in the small, working-class town of Lyndhurst, NJ, the Sparks have a broad range of special challenges from autism to Down’s syndrome, and they perform in the fierce world of competitive cheer seeking a way to fit in and to feel normal. Their joy is infectious, their bravery—inspirational. But, the day-to-day challenges are daunting on the mats and behind the scenes. CHEER brings a pressing social issue to audiences opening hearts and minds to the last segregated community in America – the developmentally disabled.

COASTA film by Jessica Hester & Derek Schweickart
For 15-year-old Abby Avila, home is the last place she wants to be. As her small town trappings and Mother's unlived dreams close in on her, Abby seeks refuge in music. When she befriends a traveling punk rock band, she discovers freedom in making her voice heard, and sees her home through new eyes.

THE COMMANDMENT KEEPERSA film by Marlaine Glicksman
THE COMMANDMENT KEEPERS is a one-hour documentary on the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, a highly observant African American synagogue founded in 1919 in Harlem, where it continues today, several generations later. The film is the dramatic story of a people caught between two worlds, Black and Jewish, a minority’s minority, struggling to hold on to its faith and identity despite the obstacles.

COMPLICIT (FORMERLY WHO PAYS THE PRICE? THE HUMAN COST OF ELECTRONICS)A film by Heather White and Lynn Zhang
Who Pays the Price? the Human Cost of Electronics is an investigative expose that profiles injured and chemically poisoned young Chinese workers in factories that manufacture the world’s leading electronics brands. Thousands of teenagers enter China’s export factories annually to make our favorite electronic gadgets, only to find their health ruined by the age of 25 or their right hands amputated by faulty machinery. Who Pays the Price documents their struggles to receive accurate diagnoses from hospitals and compensation from the factories that do everything they can to deny their claims. A growing movement among workers inspires hope that a change may be coming.

DAISY: GIRL VISIONARY (FORMERLY THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE)A film by Jennifer Sims & Elizabeth Morton
Daisy: Girl Visionary is an irrepressible animated short about a 10-year-old, time-traveling, environmentalist visionary. With her powerful imagination, Daisy accesses the rich legacy of girls who came before her so that she can look to the future with hope and conviction. Daisy: Girl Visionary, with a running time of 8 minutes, speaks with relevancy to universal hopes and concerns for the future of our planet. It will be appropriate to screen in a theatrical setting as well as online.

DECADE OF FIREA film by Vivian Vazquez, Gretchen Hildebran, Julia Steele Allen
In the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez was growing up in a close-knit South Bronx neighborhood. But by the end of the decade, a relentless plague of fires had devastated her community. DECADE OF FIRE follows Vivian’s search for answers: Why did the Bronx burn? And what happened to those who remained behind? This feature documents a Bronx that is rarely seen - once nearly destroyed by political neglect - but redeemed by the resistance of the people who call it home.

A DOUBLE LIFEA film by Catherine Masud
A lawyer once accused of murder reflects on his past as a civil rights activist and political fugitive. His story brings to the surface the persistent mystery of his role in the 1971 San Quentin prison rebellion, and also raises disturbing questions about state repression, the criminal justice system, the role of the media and the nature of political action that continue to resonate in the present day.

DREAMS OF DARAAA film by Reilly Dowd
Dreams of Daraa is a riveting, up-close portrait of the Syrian refugee crisis, told through the eyes of one brave young mother named Hanadi and her three daughters. When a visiting girl clown from Slovakia unexpectedly enters their lives in Zaatari Refugee Camp, Hanadi reveals her heart’s desire—to find her missing husband and return to the life she once knew and loved. Told through a combination of Verité footage, animation based on the children’s original drawings, and archival video, their harrowing journey back to Syria at a time when most are fleeing brings to life what so many people want most—a place to call home.

DRESSED LIKE KINGSA film by Stacey L. Holman
Husbands, fathers and breadwinners four Zulu men: Bhekizenzo Buthelezi, 49; Simon Khoza, 43; Adolphus Mbuyisa, 52; and Thulani Mbatha, 43 give a rare glimpse into their lives outside of the oswenka (to swank) competition. Dressed Like Kings will: disclose the mystique of swanking, see how it impacts the family, and witness the growing opposition which may very well effect the fate of this fifty-year old tradition within the Zulu culture.

DRIVING WITH SELVI, AKA SAVE HER A SEATA film by Elisa Paloschi
Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day, in deep despair, she chooses to escape, and goes on to become South India’s first female taxi driver. This is the ten-year journey of a charming, strong, and courageous young woman who defies all expectations, moving beyond the pain she’s experienced to create a new life.

DUSTY GROOVE: THE SOUND OF TRANSITIONA film by Danielle Beverly
Used record buyer Rick walks us into the homes – and stories - of strangers, to dig through their rare vinyl jazz and soul records. He liberates sellers of their once prized possessions for his store, Dusty Groove. Each seller shares a common reason: they face a major life transition.

DYKES, CAMERA, ACTION!A film by Caroline Berler
Lesbians didn't always have a way to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, a once invisible population became seen and heard, and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they've expressed queer identity through film.

DYSLEXIAVILLEA film by Peggy Stern
The mission of Dyslexiaville is to leverage the power of visual storytelling through on-line programming- giving children struggling in school a virtual safe place, a community, and the self-advocacy skills needed to cement positive self-identity and set them on a path of promise in school and in life.

ELECTRIC MALADYA film by Marie Lidén
Director, Marie Lidén, grew up with a mother who suffered from an illness that the world did not recognise: electrosensitivity. Years later, in a technologically advanced world, Marie gives a poignant account of the lives of two electrosensitives: William, a 40 year old Swedish man and Tyler, a 13 year old Canadian boy. Using her own family story as a thread, Marie explores William and Tyler’s isolated worlds and their families’ unrelenting commitment to help their children.

THE EMOJI PROJECTA film by Martha Shane and Ian Cheney
THE EMOJI PROJECT explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the designers, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language. How do you create a global language on the fly? With humor and whimsy, we examine the creation and evolution of this immensely popular electronic communication tool, all the while asking tough and thought-provoking questions about what emoji reveal about our increasingly digital world.

EVERY DAY IS A HOLIDAYA film by Theresa Loong
Chinese-American filmmaker Theresa Loong creates an intimate portrait of her father, a man fifty years her senior. In this documentary, we explore the bonds of the father-daughter relationship and place themes of growing older, immigration and racism in the context of "living history." Paul Loong talks of his experiences as a POW in Japan and his subsequent quest to become an American. We discover why, despite much suffering, "Every Day Is a Holiday."

EX LIBRISA film by Melissa Hacker
EX LIBRIS is an animated documentary film tracing the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather Marco Birnholz commissioned, created and lost in Vienna, Austria between the two world wars. EX LIBRIS will explore the intimate, intricate, universe, parallel to his everyday life as a neighborhood pharmacist, that he created in his ex libris collection, and the exploding world he recorded in his diaries.

EXPOSUREA film by Holly Morris
This is the story of 12 women defying cultural expectations and physical limits, joining forces to achieve something universal. Facing shifting Arctic ice, polar bears, and -40 degree temperatures, expedition team members from the West and the Middle East will attempt to ski together to the top of the world – the North Pole. In a story taut with geopolitical tension and the volatilities of climate change, the team embarking on this polar expedition is looking to make history.

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